Ferrari give up on overtaking champ Vettel

The Italian team queried whether Red Bull driver Vettel had illegally overtaken Jean-Eric Vergne’s Toro Rosso before going on to clinch his third-straight world title with a sixth-place finish at Interlagos.

If Ferrari’s claim had been upheld, the German could have faced a retrospective 20-second penalty which would have seen him lose the title to Fernando Alonso by a point.

The FIA said yesterday that Vettel (above) had “no case to answer” and Ferrari today now consider the matter closed.